CATHERINE FARGHER   (1961 - )


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Australian
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Plays by Catherine Fargher

CATHERINE FARGHER
Body Ophelia - Installation Texts, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
2003
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Genre:
Full-Length 75 mins
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CATHERINE FARGHER
Body Ophelia, The
1st Produced:
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Company:
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1st Published:
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2001
To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Full-Length 75 mins
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
-
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CATHERINE FARGHER
Dr Egg and The Man with No Ear
1st Produced:
Sydney Opera House
2007
Company:
Jessica Wilson Productions, Sydney Opera House, Chicago Redmoon theatre
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
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Genre:
Puppetry/New Media
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
2
Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: A sad man has lost his ear and his wife in an unfortunate accident with a snappy bull terrier. His wife dead, he tries to live a happy life with his young daughter, but he cannot overcome his craving for a new ear. One day he locates a mysterious scientist, Dr Egg, and is offered a previously unthinkable possibility; Dr Egg can try to grow him a new ear. But first he needs a small piece of flesh from his precious daughter. The Man refuses to harm her, but is increasingly tortured by his desire for the ear. Finally his curious daughter breaks out of this protective shield and finds her way to Dr Egg's laboratory to give him the flesh herself. Before their very eyes, the ear grows, but it does not stop there. A new life is made. And it looks a lot like her. Should her creation live or die? Dr Egg, the daughter and the sad man are faced with a dilemma.
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CATHERINE FARGHER
Marigold Hour, The
1st Produced:
,Vitalstatistix National Womens Theatre Company, Port Adelaide, S.A
2000
Company:
Vitalstatistix
1st Published:
2000
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Genre:
Monologue/s 75 mins
Play/Drama
Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
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Notes: -
Synopsis: Is it the smell of a Lily that makes it alluring before you have even laid eyes on it? The strong scent drifting towards you on the hot summer night air, making you no more than a sensual beast, drawn dumbly forwards to sniff it's nectar moist insides, to fondle it's pollen doused stamens? Welcome to the monstrous gorgeous gardens of desire, home of assorted hothouse flowers, delicate pansies, and the hardened succulents of the lesbian and gay underworlds. You might even meet the ghost of Don Dunstan! The Marigold Hour is a luscious, comic and erotic performance monologue by cabaret and performance artist Catherine Fargher, who has previously created work for cLUB bENT, Taboo Parlour, It's Queer up North (UK) and WOW Cafe (New York), Sidetrack Performance Group, Theatre of the Deaf and Death Defying Theatre. On the road to FEAST 2000, don't forget to smell the roses.
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CATHERINE FARGHER
Succulent
1st Produced:
Peacock Theatre, Hobart,
2001
Company:
Terrapin Puppet Theatre
1st Published:
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To Buy This Play:
I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com
or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page
Genre:
Puppetry
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Parts:
Male
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Female
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Parts Other:
Puppetry and video
Notes: -
Synopsis: -
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CATHERINE FARGHER
Woman Who Knitted Herself A Child, The
1st Produced:
ABC Radio National Airplay
2004
Company:
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1st Published:
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Genre:
Radio
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Parts:
Male
2
Female
3
Parts Other:
6
Notes: Recorded at ABC Radio Audio Arts Studios, November 14-17th 2004. First Broadcast Dec 19th 2004. Repeat Broadcast Nov 14 2005.
Synopsis: The Woman Who Knitted Herself a Child' follows a woman scientist as she does an extraordinary thing: she is knitting herself a child. The piece explores the reveries of a woman as she tries to make sense of a changing and highly technological world of new genetic futures. Working at the 'coalface' of genetic research, cloning transgenic organisms, she explores the possibilities she is creating through her work and the miraculous futures promised by cloning, IVF, stem cell technology and dolly the sheep. In her inner world, the mitochondrial/ subconscious space, she knits together the ancient knit and purl stitches, and the constantly evolving strands of DNA double helix. Throughout the play, memories of her past emerge, as a child and as a pregnant teenager making a decision on her reproductive future, and finally the growing wish for her own child. The play incorporates original composition and soundscapes by Matthew Fargher and Jane Ulman, creating a sense of enchantment and menace as she creates these new 'beings'.
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